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Putting public health research into practice has had major impacts worldwide, resulting in longer, healthier lives.

Dr Sabina Wachira, a THRiVE postdoctoral fellow from icipe in Kenya, who visited her Cambridge mentor (Dr David Spring of the Department of Chemistry)'s lab in 2012

Cambridge named one of Wellcome Trust’s Centres for Global Health Research

11 Feb 2013

Centre will support researchers working in public health and tropical medicine.

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Cigarette

Experts believe plain packaging of tobacco products would cut smoking

23 Jan 2013

Study examined likely impact on smoking rates in adults and children.

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65 DAYS OF STATIC @ Cargo

Schizophrenia linked to social inequality

14 Dec 2012

Urban neighbourhoods with high deprivation, population density and inequality found to have higher rates of schizophrenia.

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Cancer

Awareness could eliminate inequalities in cancer diagnoses

13 Nov 2012

Each year 5,600 patients are diagnosed with cancer at a late stage because of inequalities. Study underlines importance of awareness campaigns.

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Plans (subject to final design selection) of the Heart and Lung Research Institute (left) and new Papworth Hospital

Expanding the heart and lungs of medicine

07 Nov 2012

Fundraising is under way for a joint Cambridge University and Papworth Hospital Heart and Lung Research Institute – to sit alongside the anticipated...

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Waiting area in a hospital in Palapye, Botswana

Lessons from Botswana

17 Oct 2012

Towards the end of their training, student doctors have the chance to spend an elective spell working overseas, often in developing countries...

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Collaborative public health research

Anglo-US public health research partnership forged

12 Oct 2012

The University of Cambridge and the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill (UNC) Gillings School of Global Public Health will pioneer...

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Original sin and the risk of epidemics

10 Oct 2012

Mathematicians are helping to build a better picture of how populations develop immunity to flu and which groups are most at risk of getting – and...

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'Madness', James McArdell, after Robert Edge Pine 1760

Care in the community

02 Oct 2012

Historians have long recognised that the family were the chief carers of the mentally ill. A new study will investigate the emotional and economic...

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Phone

Therapy over the phone as effective as face-to-face

28 Sep 2012

Phone therapy also increases access and potentially decreases costs.

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Meat

Reducing consumption of red and processed meat could make a major contribution to cutting greenhouse gas emissions

18 Sep 2012

Research quantifies the reduction in greenhouse gases, as well the effect it would have on health, if UK cut amount of red and processed meat eaten...

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Blood transfusion

Western methods increase cost of 'safe blood' in sub-Saharan Africa

11 Sep 2012

Scientists find that Western approach to blood transfusion employed in Africa - often a condition of financial aid - may add significant cost to...

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